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In other words:

- you previously spent time building relationships with contractors. You didn’t just type in property management in Google

- a significant overhead goes to insurance and management. Your comfortable putting money as needed into the venture. You have knowledge of legal pitfalls of being a landlord.

- you regularly spend time managing these contracts

I believe you can do well with rentals, but not without labor and knowledge. The danger is people thinking they will just hire a manager.

I would also rather be an engineer than fix apartments.

Idk if it was very technical for him to succeed. Know your local market and be aggressive in buying is a good strategy throughout 80s and 90s.

Seminars were important knowledge distribution networks in the 80s and 90s.

Scams and low quality content are usually a strong indicator something used to be good, and attracted copy cats.

You don’t think he made a lot of money in real estate?

He already has stated publicly that the “rich dad” is a characterization. And the book is about the 4th product in his attempt to teach finance courses. So I’m already suspect of the article.

Yes it’s a terribly written book, but that’s typically the case from non-professional writers who just have something to say.

My biggest takeaway is that “stay in school so you can get a good job” is not a great wealth creation strategy. You just compete with other highly qualified candidates for jobs that pay 20-30% more (See 20+ years at Boeing). Jobs like this also attract other risk averse people.

You’re trying to say that I’m defining success as money and he’s defining it as more wholesome factors.

That’s not what’s happening.

Having a job he likes that pays him money he wants. That’s the criteria outlined. He’s just afraid it might end up being a job he doesn’t like.

There is a myth that higher paying jobs must be more miserable, but it’s rarely true.

this sounds a lot like the psychology of having nothing to lose vs something to lose. You play more aggressively and are more successful in the former case.

Remember that like wikipedia, citing yourself, or people related to your work is a form of marketing, and important for careers.

I would expect them to have someone with at least an undergrad in math look over the math. Editor would help identify that

This. He tries to do a few epsilon delta proofs and completely gets the concept wrong. I’m surprised an editor did not stop this.

If he can’t understand a limit it really puts a question mark on whether it’s worth reading his insight into the subject.

How many meanings of the word emum do we need? Whose code does this improve?

Hash maps are extremely difficult to make general which is probably why they were never included in C++98. unordered_map is a disaster.